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Moneylife Digital Team 10 January 2025
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) chairman SN Subrahmanyan ignited a heated debate after suggesting that employees should work 90 hours a week, including Sundays, to remain competitive. His remarks, shared in a video message to employees, have drawn widespread criticism on social media. Not long ago,...

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Against the backdrop of news of serious allegations against National Museum officials about the handling and movement of priceless antiquities against the directives of the Union ministry of culture; alleged smuggling of artifacts and its officers allegedly travelling on personal passports...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 January 2025
The Maharashtra Cabinet has decided to make toll collection through FASTag mandatory from 1 April 2025. The Cabinet also announced revisions in the rules of business to streamline administrative processes for toll collection through FASTag.   A proposal submitted by the public works...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 08 January 2025
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted bail to Rona Wilson and Sudhir Dhawale, accused in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence case.   A Bench of Justice AS Gadkari and Justice Kamal Khata granted bail citing prolonged incarceration, the non-framing of charges and the fact that over 300...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 January 2025
The Supreme Court collegium has recommended transfers of justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya as chief justice of the Delhi High Court (HC) and justice Alok Aradhe as chief justice of the Bombay High Court. At present, justice Upadhyaya is the chief justice of the Bombay HC, while justice Aradhe is...

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It is perhaps fitting that we are starting 2025, which marks the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, with serious introspection, triggered by the passing of former prime minister (PM) Manmohan Singh in India and President Jimmy Carter in the United States, at the age of 91 and 100,...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 31 December 2024
The Bombay High Court will implement new video conferencing rules for court hearings in Maharashtra, Goa and the Union Territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli starting December 29.   A notification to that effect was published in the gazette on December 19.    The new rules...

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Prachi Salve (IndiaSpend) 30 December 2024
Sixteen critical government datasets are delayed, and nine Union ministries have not released their annual reports--some of them for several years. The Census of India is now three years overdue.   The delay is spread across government datasets spanning multiple sectors including health,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 December 2024
Dr. Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India, a visionary economist, and the architect of modern India’s economic reforms, passed away last night at the age of 92. Born on September 26, 1932, in Gah, now in Pakistan, Dr. Singh rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 December 2024
The Finance Ministry's monthly economic review blames the combination of Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) tight monetary policy stance and macroprudential measures as responsible for the current demand slowdown. India’s GDP growth slowed to a near two-year low of 5.4% in the July-September...

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Shreehari Paliath (IndiaSpend) 24 December 2024
Bengaluru: India’s prison overcrowding is a persistent problem. While there have been multiple Supreme Court orders to ensure prisoners are released on bail without onerous conditions, and the government has recently launched a scheme to support bail for poor prisoners, there are still around

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Shreehari Paliath (IndiaSpend) 24 December 2024
Bengaluru: India’s prison overcrowding is a persistent problem. While there have been multiple Supreme Court orders to ensure prisoners are released on bail without onerous conditions, and the government has recently launched a scheme to support bail for poor prisoners, there are still around

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In the mid-1990s, when Indian corporates were struggling to handle an economic slowdown and high interest rates, I had developed a simple rule of thumb to filter high-quality companies: Does the company earn a significant part of its revenues from exports? The logic behind this was...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 December 2024
Shirish B Patel, a distinguished Indian civil engineer and urban planner, passed away in Mumbai on December 20, 2024, at the age of 92. His visionary work and unwavering commitment to sustainable urban development have left an indelible mark on Mumbai's landscape.   Born in 1932, Mr Patel's...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 December 2024
The waylaying and robbing of a trader carrying Rs20 lakh by a four-member gang on Tuesday turned sensational on Wednesday as the culprits were identified as three serving income-tax (I-T) inspectors and a sub-inspector attached to Triplicane police station. All the arrested I-T inspectors...

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Anadi Tewari (Bar  and   Bench) 17 December 2024
A practicing advocate cannot work as a journalist on the side, since there are rules prohibiting such dual roles for lawyers, the Bar Council of India (BCI) informed the Supreme Court on Monday (Mohd Kamran vs State of Uttar Pradesh and anr).   The Court had earlier sought the BCI's input on...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 December 2024
Zakir Hussain, one of the most transcendent and influential musicians of our time, has passed away at the age of 73 after a battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Ustad Zakir Hussain, known for his extraordinary mastery of the tabla, passed away in San Francisco, surrounded by...

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Bar  and   Bench 12 December 2024
In a significant order, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed trial courts across the country to not pass any effective orders or surveys against existing religious structures in suits filed disputing the religious character of such structures.   A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI)...

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Anadi Tewari (Bar  and   Bench) 11 December 2024
The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed concern over the rampant misuse of Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which penalises cruelty by husbands and their relatives against married women (Dara Lakshmi Narayana and Others v. State of Telangana and Another).   A Bench of Justice BV...

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Shashwat Singh (Bar  and   Bench) 11 December 2024
Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal has called for the impeachment of the Allahabad High Court judge Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav over his recent remarks against Muslim community. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has taken note of the controversial remarks made by Justice Yadav on 8th December at an event...

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